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Gie me ae spark o’ Nature’s fire, That’s a’ the learning I desire.

Robert Burns

To make a happy fireside clime To weans and wife, That’s the true pathos and sublime Of human life.
ROBERT BURNS

Happiness Human Life True Wife
I want someone to laugh with me, someone to be grave with me, someone to please me and help my discrimination with his or her own remark, and at times, no doubt, to admire my acuteness and penetration.
ROBERT BURNS

Discrimination Doubt Grave Laughter Myself Time
My dear, my native soil! For whom my warmest wish to Heav’n is sent, Long may thy hardy sons of rustic toil Be blest with health, and peace, and sweet content!
ROBERT BURNS

Health Heaven Myself Peace Warm
Some rhyme a neebor’s name to lash; Some rhyme (vain thought!) for needfu’ cash; Some rhyme to court the countra clash, An’ raise a din; For me, an aim I never fash; I rhyme for fun.
ROBERT BURNS

Fun Money Myself Name Rhyme Thinking
When chill November’s surly blast Made fields and forests bare.
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Cold Forest November Winds
My Son, these maxims make a rule An lump them ay thegither: The Rigid Righteous is a fool, The Rigid Wise anither.
ROBERT BURNS

Fools Right Rule Son Wisdom
Your lines, I maintain it, are poetry, and good poetry. Friendship had I been so blest as to have met with you in time, might have led me – God of love only knows where.
ROBERT BURNS

Blessing Friendship God Goodness Love Poetry Time
Man’s inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn!
ROBERT BURNS

Human Mourning Silver
Firmness in enduring and exertion is a character I always wish to possess. I have always despised the whining yelp of complaint and cowardly resolve.
ROBERT BURNS

Character Complaint Coward Endurance Myself Possession
The wisest man the warl’ e’er saw, He dearly loved the lasses, O.
ROBERT BURNS

Love Man Wisdom
Beauty’s of a fading nature. Has a season and is gone!
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Beautiful Fade Nature Season
Suspense is worst than disappointment.
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Disappointment One Liner Worst
The heart that is generous and kind most resembles God.
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Generosity God Heart Kind
There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.
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Philosophy Uncertain
Be Briton still to Britain true, Among oursel’s united; For never but by British hands Maun British wrangs be righted.
ROBERT BURNS

Hands Right True Unity
Life is but a day at most.
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Life One Liner Time

Gie me ae spark o’ Nature’s fire, That’s a’ the learning I desire.

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